Revision of Perception of Child Maltreatment Scale in Chinese college students / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

ObjeoctiveTo revise and examine the validity and reliability of the Perception of Child Maltreatment Scale (PCMS) in college students.Method:A sample of 555 undergraduates coming from two universities in Harbin and one university in Shanghai was investigated with questionnaire,half of them (n =227) was assessed for exploratory factor analysis and another half of them (n =228) was assessed for confirmatory factor analysis.The criterion validity was tested with the Short Form of Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF).Totally 57 students were retested for test-retest reliability with 2 week interval.Results:Totally 28 items were retained after exploratory factor analysis,classified into five factors,named psychological abuse,physical abuse,labor,neglect,sexual abuse.And the result of confirmatory factor analysis was that the structure of scale was stable and achieved goodness of fit (x2/df=1.63,CFI =0.912,TLI =0.901,RMSEA =0.048,SRMR =0.059).The scores of psychological abuse,physical abuse and neglect in PCMS were negatively correlated with the scores of psychological abuse,physical abuse and neglect in CTQ-SF respectively (r =0.12-0.15,Ps ＜0.05).Cronbach's α coefficient of total scale was 0.92,and the Cronbach's α coefficients of subscales were between 0.55 and 0.84.The test-retest reliability were 0.84 for total scale and 0.76-0.91 for five subscales.Conclusion:The validity and reliability of the revised questionnaire is satisfactory,which could be used in the measurement of college students' perception of child maltreatment.